IN RE SENATE JOINT RES. OF LEG. APPORTIONMENT

No. SC12-1.

83 So.3d 597 (2012)

In re SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION OF LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT 1176.

Supreme Court of Florida.

March 9, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Carvin of Jones Day, Washington, DC, Andy Bardos , Special Counsel to the President, The Florida Senate, Peter M. Dunbar and Cynthia S. Tunnicliff of Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell and Dunbar, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, for The Senate as proponents.

George N. Meros, Jr. , Allen Winsor , Charles T. Wells , Jason L. Unger , and Charles B. Upton, II of GrayRobinson, P.A., George T. Levesque , General Counsel, Florida House of Representatives, Tallahassee, FL, and Miguel A. De Grandy , P.A., Coral Gables, FL, for The House of Representatives as proponents.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, and Timothy D. Osterhaus , Deputy Solicitor General, Tallahassee, FL, for The Attorney General as Proponents.

Jon L. Mills , Karen C. Dyer , and Elan M. Nehleber of Boies, Schiller and Flexner, LLP, Orlando, FL, Joseph W. Hatchett of Akerman Senterfitt, Tallahassee, FL, Marc E. Elias , Kevin J. Hamilton , John Devaney , and Abha Khanna of Perkins Cole, LLP, Washington, DC, The Florida Democratic Party as opponents.

Ronald G. Meyer of Meyer, Brooks, Demma and Blohm, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, Paul M. Smith , Michael B. DeSanctis , Jessica Ring Amunson , and Kristen M. Rogers of Jenner and Block, LLP, Washington, DC, J. Gerald Hebert , Alexandria, VA, for The League of Women Voters of Florida, National Counsel of La Raza, and Common Cause Florida as opponents.

David A. Theriaque , S. Brent Spain , and Christopher F. Busch of Therique and Spain, Tallahassee, FL, and Timothy J. McCausland , Lakeland, FL, for the City of Lakeland, Florida as opponents.

Ronald A. Labasky of Brewton Plante, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, on behalf of the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections, Inc.; and Charles G. Burr of Burr and Smith, LLP, Tampa, FL, Victor L. Goode and Dorcas R. Gilmore , NAACP, Baltimore, MD, Allison J. Riggs and Anita S. Earls of Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Durham, NC, Other Interested Parties Responding.


PARIENTE, J.

With the goal of reforming this state's legislative apportionment process, in 2010, the Florida voters approved an amendment to the Florida Constitution establishing stringent new standards for the once-in-a-decade apportionment of legislative districts. These express new standards imposed by the voters clearly act as a restraint on the Legislature in drawing apportionment plans. After the Legislature draws the apportionment plans, this Court is required...

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